Etymologies

Examples

It was in this context that a Polish Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin had coined the term genocide, by which he meant "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group," in his 1944 book, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, "from the ancient Greek word genos (race, tribe) and the Latin cide (killing)."

This new word, coined by the author to denote an old practice in its modern development, is made from the ancient Greek word genos (race, tribe) and the Latin cide (killing), thus corresponding in its formation to such words as tyrannicide, homocide, infanticide, etc.(

Celsus speaks of the genos of the Jews, and opposes both genē in the sharpest manner to all other nations, in order to show that when Christians, as renegade Jews, distinguish themselves from this genos — a genos which is, at least, a people — they do so to their own loss.

- L'viv, 2001), 654 pp. [16] Explaining that he was combining "the ancient Greek word" genos "(race, tribe) and the Latin" cide "(killing)," he added in a footnote, "Another term could be used for the same idea, namely," ethnocide, "consisting of the Greek word 'ethnos'-nation-and the Latin word

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